Section 05 · Land
Who owns the rock, and since when
The geology, the institutions, and the ownership questions — from the Index batholith to the 2010 town-wall purchase.
Coarse-grained granodiorite: the crystals are visible to the eye, and they are why the rock holds a crack.
Photo: Alfo Medeiros / Pexels
Photo: Alfo Medeiros / Pexels
8 entries
The Index Batholith: Where the Rock Came From
The intrusion under Index, and why it holds a crack.
Read →How Basalt Becomes a Column
Cooling mechanics, and the hexagons they leave behind.
Read →The 1968 Act and the Peaks It Enclosed
What the Act enclosed, and what it changed for climbers already there.
Read →The Mountaineers, 1906, and the Book That Catalogued the Range
A Seattle club, and the three volumes that catalogued the range.
Read →Lloyd Anderson Needed an Ice Axe
A co-operative founded in 1938 because an ice axe was hard to buy.
Read →Who Bought the Lower Town Wall and Why It Mattered in 2010
The 2010 transaction that put a crag in climbers’ hands.
Read →The Washington Climbers Coalition and the Question of Access as History
Founding, campaigns, and access treated as a matter of record.
Read →May 1980 and the Closure That Rewrote the Southern Cascades
The eruption, the closure, and the seven years before it reopened.
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